Today I thought I'd share some photos of a recent walk through the woods at Hemlock Bluffs, a nature preserve near where I live. I love going there in early spring, when new leaves are just emerging.
We are fortunate to live in an area which, even though it's being developed at breakneck speed, still has quite a lot of green space for walking and biking.

After the bareness of winter, it is an other-worldly experience being enveloped by a sea of green. Not just any green, but that bright, fresh yellow-green that turns chartreuse when the sun shines through the leaves.

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The new leaves are so translucent and delicate... like the breath of fairies